{"product_id":"cafe-terrace-at-night-1888-vincent-van-gogh-fine-art-print","title":"Café Terrace at Night (1888)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"presh-product\" data-theme=\"van-gogh-cafe-terrace-1888\" data-presh-undeniable=\"1\" style=\"--accent:#1f3a6b;--accent-2:#e2a72e;--ground:#f4efe2;\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"lede\"\u003eA yellow awning under a sky full of stars, painted outdoors at night. Vincent van Gogh, \u003cem\u003eCafé Terrace at Night\u003c\/em\u003e, Arles, September 1888, his first painting of a starry sky.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003csection class=\"presh-block\" data-block=\"look\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHow to look at it\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStart under the awning, where the gas lamp turns the wall, the tables and the floor a hot yellow and orange. Follow the cobblestones out of the light, where they turn blue and violet. Then look up the narrow street to the stars: not white dots but small flowers of light on deep blue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\n\u003csection class=\"presh-block\" data-block=\"why\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy this one\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA night painting without black.\u003c\/strong\u003e Van Gogh wrote to his sister Wil that it was \"a painting of night without black,\" all blue, violet and green, with the lighted square \"pale sulphur, lemon green\" (letter 678, September 1888). (Our reading: he built the night from color rather than darkness.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePainted on the spot, after dark.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Kröller-Müller Museum says he painted the gas-lit terrace in situ, in the dark. He told Wil: \"I enormously enjoy painting on the spot at night\" (letter 678), and told Theo on 16 September that he had painted the café \"lit on the terrace outside by a large gas-lamp in the blue night, with a patch of starry blue sky\" (letter 681).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe first starry sky.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Kröller-Müller Museum calls it the first starry sky in his work. Later in 1888 came Starry Night over the Rhône (Musée d'Orsay), and in June 1889, in Saint-Rémy, The Starry Night.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA real square.\u003c\/strong\u003e The café is the Grand Café du Forum on the Place du Forum in Arles (Van Gogh Letters edition, letter 678, note 12).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\n\u003csection class=\"presh-block\" data-block=\"field\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThis canvas\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOil on canvas, 80.7 × 65.3 cm (31¾ × 25¾ in), Arles, September 1888. The canvas hangs in the Netherlands. Van Gogh did not sign it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\n\u003csection class=\"presh-block\" data-block=\"dossier\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"presh-dossier\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFact gap.\u003c\/strong\u003e Unusually for a night scene, Van Gogh painted the terrace on the spot, in the dark, by gaslight, and museum-reported astronomical research matches the stars to the sky of 16 or 17 September 1888. \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/news\/van-gogh-cafe-terrace-at-night-painted-on-the-spot-real-stars\"\u003eSee what the record says\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\n\u003csection class=\"presh-block\" data-block=\"sizes\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eSizes vs the original\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"sz\"\u003e8×10\u003c\/span\u003e a desk or shelf piece, the lamp glowing in your hand\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"sz\"\u003e16×20\u003c\/span\u003e about two thirds of the real canvas, the street reads from across a room\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"sz\"\u003e24×30\u003c\/span\u003e very close to its true size (25¾×31¾), a night square on your wall\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\n\u003csection class=\"presh-block\" data-block=\"paper\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePaper \u0026amp; ship\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArchival matte fine art paper, no bleed, 4:5 proportion, within about one percent of the canvas. Printed from the public domain photograph of the painting without remastering the color. Made to order, rolled in a tube. A soft black or deep walnut frame both suit it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\n\u003csection class=\"presh-block\" data-block=\"faq\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eQuick answers\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"qa\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhere is the café?\u003c\/strong\u003e On the Place du Forum in Arles, in the south of France. Van Gogh painted the Grand Café du Forum there in September 1888.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"qa\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIs this The Starry Night?\u003c\/strong\u003e No. Café Terrace came first, in September 1888 in Arles. The Starry Night was painted in June 1889 in Saint-Rémy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"qa\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIs this an original painting?\u003c\/strong\u003e No. It is an archival reproduction of the 1888 canvas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"qa\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIs the image public domain?\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes. Van Gogh died in 1890, and the photograph we print from is a faithful public domain reproduction. No museum endorses this shop.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"credit\"\u003eVincent van Gogh · Café Terrace at Night, 1888 · Image: public domain\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n","brand":"Presh","offers":[{"title":"8×10 in","offer_id":49943600988315,"sku":"PRESH-PD-VANGOGH-CAFETERRACE1888-8X10","price":68.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"16×20 in","offer_id":49943601021083,"sku":"PRESH-PD-VANGOGH-CAFETERRACE1888-16X20","price":118.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"24×30 in","offer_id":49943601053851,"sku":"PRESH-PD-VANGOGH-CAFETERRACE1888-24X30","price":168.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/0085\/3915\/files\/3840px-Van_Gogh_-_Terrace_of_a_Caf_C3_A9_at_Night__28Place_du_Forum_29_1888.jpg?v=1793078528","url":"https:\/\/heypresh.com\/products\/cafe-terrace-at-night-1888-vincent-van-gogh-fine-art-print","provider":"Presh","version":"1.0","type":"link"}